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Great Blue Heron Flying

Friday morning, a Great Blue Heron was standing in the water at the refuge, looking left then right. As the light was near perfect, I started to photograph it. When it decided to take off and fly away, I just kept pressing the shutter.

Great Blue Heron standing in water at Edwin B Forsythe NWR.

Great Blue Heron at start of flight.

Great Blue Heron flying.

Great Blue Heron flying and turning.

Great Blue Heron flying and turning.

Great Blue Heron flying.

Great Blue Heron in classic flying pose.

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26 thoughts on “Great Blue Heron Flying”

What I love about this series is the way it shows how truly awkward and then truly graceful these birds can look, from one moment o the next. It’s great the way you caught the water streaming from his feet, but that 3rd photo – so crazy looking, I love it. Also, the wingtip just a hair from the water in the 45th photo, very nice!

Yes, they’re certainly big guys! 😉 Did I tell you there’s a Great blue heron rookery near me that had 757 nests at last count, in November? Of course they’re not using the nests now, but they’ll be back, and it will be fun to try to see them, at least flying back and forth, The rookery is off limits.

Wonderul captures of the blue heron, Hien. Perfect timing with the quick clicks to capture it’s flight. Great clarity and good timing, sharp skills. Bird take off so fast and a lot of the time it’s either you are in the right place, right time to take the shots or you don’t take one at all. Great work as usual and hope you are having a good end to the year 🙂